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figuration|fɪgjʊəˈreɪʃən|
Also 5 figuracion.
[a. F. figuration, ad. L. figūrātiōn-em, n. of action f. figūrāre to fashion, figure.]
1. a. The action or process of forming into figure; determination to a certain form.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. xiv. (1634) 230 Finally the figuration of Christ, hath with them the place of begetting. 1656H. More Enthus. Tri. 4 The inward figuration of our brain or spirits into this or that representation. 1677Grew Anat. Fruits vi. §2 The Vessels serve for the Figuration of the Fruit. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 230 A mysticism like that of Tauler strives to escape all image and ‘figuration’.
b. quasi-concr. The resulting form or shape; contour, outline.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 199 The chiefe cite..is callede Brundusium..in that hit holdethe in the figuracion of hit the similitude of the hede of an herte. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 77/1 Constantine caused a Crosse after the same figuration to be made of gold and precious stones. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 53 Quincuncial forms..are also observable in animall figurations. 1697T. Smith in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 249 The different shapes and figurations of letters in several ages of the world. 1728Pemberton Newton's Philos. 8 The figuration and the motion of bodies strike our senses more immediately than most of their other properties. 1842De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. LI. 13 Their very figurations now appeared to reflect and repeat each other. 1890J. H. Stirling Gifford Lect. iv. 71 Finite things were the figurations, the lineamentations of extension.
2. a. The action of representing figuratively; an allegorical or figurative representation.
1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. Pref. (1573) 12 It [this Apocalips] sheweth vs also sondry descriptions and figurations of matters most weightie. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 266 The sacrament is not a bare figuration of the flesh of Christ. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 213 In Prophetick Figurations one individual Beast signifies a Multitude of men. 1737Waterland Eucharist (1739) 28 The..dark Intimations of the legal Types or Figurations. 1840Lytton Pilgr. Rhine xxvi, The..faun has been made the figuration of the most implacable of fiends. 1871Macduff Mem. Patmos xix. 256 The island-home..may have possibly added power and reality to the figuration.
b. The figurative style of painting. Cf. figurative a. 2 b.
1962Listener 19 July 93/2 Some painters who persisted with figuration during the nineteen-fifties when it was least in favour.
3. The action of framing figures or shapes:
a. in dreams; in quot. quasi-concr.
b. Ornamentation by means of figures or designs. rare.
1652Gaule Magastrom. 176 There is neither vertue nor efficacy in such fabrications, or figurations, from God, Angels, nature. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Figuration, a chimerical vision. 1866J. G. Murphy Comm. Ex. xxvi. 36–7 The figuration is wrought not by the loom, but by the needle.
†4. Math.
a. The making of arithmetical figures.
b. The multiplying of a number into itself (see figurate v. 5); involution. Obs.
c1430Art of Nombrynge (E.E.T.S.) 2 Ffigure is clepede for protraccione of figuracione. 1674S. Jeake Arith. (1696) 373 Figuration of the Sinister part of the Divisor.
5. Music. Employment of figurate or florid counterpoint; alteration of a theme or counterpoint by the introduction of passing-notes, rapid figures, etc.
1597Morley Introd. Mus. 90 Phi. What is Figuration? Ma. When you sing one note of the plain-song long, and another short, etc. a1646J. Gregory Nicene Creed Wks. (1649) 53 The Singing of the Nicene creed..with all the Ornaments and figurations of Harmonie. 1883Parry in Grove Dict. Mus. III. 759 The process is rather that of free figuration of two or three parts, giving in general a contrapuntal effect to the whole. 1889Ibid. IV. 761 The mixed style, in which the figuration introduced consists chiefly of suspended concords [etc.].
6. A member of the Figures form (see figure n. 22 b).
1904Ushaw Mag. XIV. 200 Whilst the Grammarians scored 16 the High Figurations scored 7. |